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December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 Tim Worthington

A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly

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What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?

September 15, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Snowmen, Snow Coach And Foxy-Faced Charles

December 24, 2024October 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

Last Minute Present Dash

December 24, 2024November 28, 2025 Tim Worthington

Looks Unfamiliar’s Yuletide Binge: Ben Baker – The Fickleness Of The Long Distance Ratter

November 24, 2024November 6, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Best Gifts Come With A Bow

June 16, 2024March 23, 2025 Tim Worthington

Through The Square Window: Brass Eye, Blakey And Doomlord

May 24, 2024December 18, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: He Also Ate A Lot Of Texan Bars

December 24, 2023November 29, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Local Radio Countdown To Christmas: Bob Fischer And Georgy Jamieson – Hot Girl-On-Pudsey Action

December 24, 2023October 25, 2025 Tim Worthington

The Looks Unfamiliar Pops Present: Tim Worthington – When These Animal Men Do The Theme From Charlie Chalk I’ll Be Impressed

December 16, 2023November 27, 2025 Tim Worthington

I’m Just Gonna Keep On Waiting Underneath The Mistletoe

December 12, 2023November 27, 2025 Tim Worthington

Like The Jolly Christmas Lights Of Regent Street, They Are To Prove Sadly Deceptive

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The Golden Age Of Children's TV

The Golden Age Of Children's TV by Tim Worthington

The story of children's television from Play School and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang and everything in between - get it in all good bookshops and from Waterstones here, Amazon here or from the Kindle Store here.

New Features

Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Through The Square Window: Orbit, Hamble And How Do You Do!
Another collection of highlights from the archives, including more than a few items that humourless bores would probably rather stayed in the archives - or possibly even weren't in them to begin with...

Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
Michael Caine Appears In Pulp On Tuesday
It's late December, it's late at night on BBC1, and that can only mean one thing...

What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?
What Has Happened To Shaky This Christmas?
Time to spread ever more Christmas 'cheer' - it's a look at the 1989 Christmas issue of Smash Hits!.

Latest Podcasts

A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly
A Perfect Looks Unfamiliar Christmas: Tim Worthington – You’re Not Doing Toast Properly
I join Joanne Sheppard for a chat about Merry X-Mess by Rotterdam Termination Source, The Wassailing Song by Blur, BBC2’s A Perfect Christmas, Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings, Victor Lewis-Smith’s Bumper Christmas Cracker Cliché, The Hudsucker Proxy and more.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home With Joanne Sheppard
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: No Way Home With Joanne Sheppard
Joanne joins me for a chat about Doctor Strange inadvertently presenting compelling evidence why he is no longer Sorcerer Supreme in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year
Looks Unfamiliar’s Box Of Delights: Richard Marson – I Suspect The Binmen Were Probably Not In That Year’s Review Of The Year
Richard joins me for a chat about Jackanory, Play School, Swap Shop, John Craven's Newsround Grange Hill, Blue Peter and more.

Completing The Circle

Completing The Circle
My book about the making of Children Of The Stones and other spooky seventies ITV children's serials is now available again from here.

RHLSTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV

RHSLTP Book Club: The Golden Age Of Children's TV
A chat with Richard Herring about The Golden Age Of Children's TV and thoughts on some of our favourite and indeed least favourite children's television shows - listen to it here.

Journey To The Unknown

Journey To The Unknown
Join me for a nerve-jangling selection of little-heard spooky pop discs from the sixties here.

Goon Pod: Pickwick

Goon Pod: Pickwick
A chat with Tyler Adams about Harry Secombe's acclaimed turn in the sixties-dominating Charles Dickens-inspired stage musical smash Pickwick - listen to it here.

Wolfshead

Wolfshead

Hammer's great lost Robin Hood television pilot comes to Bluray - and decent picture quality - at last. Find out more here.

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New reviews, obscurities from the archives, nonsense about old newspaper ads, exclusive audio and commentaries and much more besides. Find out more here!

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Through The Square Window: Board Games, Barnaby And 'Belouis' 'Some'
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